History Main / CrashInThroughTheCeiling

* Early in the Seattle section of the game ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs2'', Ellie is captured by enemies. Her companion Dina attempts a rescue by shooting down on the captors from a skylight, but in so doing she ''stands on the glass'', allowing the bad guy to shatter it and drop her into the room.

* ''Film/TheNakedGunTwoAndAHalf'': Frank is [[ItMakesSenseInContext chased across a rooftop by a guard dog]], and accidentally crashes into the villains' hideout via the skylight.

* ''Film/TheGame'': Nicholas's really weird day culminates with crashing a party by dropping through a glass ceiling into a crowded ballroom. Luckily for him, [[spoiler:there's a big airbag below to catch him and the party turns out to be in his honour.]]

* ''Literature/{{Kadingir}}'': In ''The Shapla Case'', the leaders of every race in Ki meet in an unprecedented symposium to discuss how to tackle a planetary crisis. Mistrust and a very recent war makes it a tense situation, and it doesn't help that King Vizvi comes in crashing through the great ceiling dome for no particular reason other that being an AttentionWhore goes with his job description.

* Early in the Seattle section of the game ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs2'', Ellie is captured by enemies. Her companion Dina attempts a rescue by shooting down on the captors from a skylight, but in so doing she ''[[WhatAnIdiot stands on the glass]]'', allowing the bad guy to shatter it and drop her into the room.

When they land, it might be with a ThreePointLanding. Sister trope to FloorboardFailure, which is a comparable way to ''leave'' a room. See also ThereWasADoor, for occasions when the character ignores a perfectly good entryway and bashes a hole in the wall instead.

** ''Film/BatmanForever'' Batman enters the party being thrown by [[Characters/BatmanTheRiddler Edward Nygma]] this way after it's crashed by [[Characters/BatmanTwoFace Two-Face]].

* ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'': Batman famously rescues Vicky Vale from the Joker by dramatically entering through the skylight.

* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'': Doc does this in his attempts to emulate Batman.

* ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'': The protagonists try a MissionImpossibleCableDrop, but get lost in the vents and get into a fight, leading to the vents giving way and sending them right through the ceiling, right where the Russian mob guys they want to kill are through sheer luck. As they fall, they get tangled in their rope...and they still manage to kill every Russian mob guy in the room as they spin about upside down. This is how Agent Smecker deduces that the brothers are amateurs who most likely got the idea through bad television.

* ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'': The protagonists try a MissionImpossibleCableDrop, but get lost in the vents and get into a fight, leading to the vents giving way and sending them right through the ceiling, getting them tangled in their rope... and they still manage to kill every Russian mob guy in the room as they spin about upside down. This is how Agent Smecker deduces that the brothers are amateurs who most likely got the idea through bad television.

* ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'': The protagonists try a MissionImpossibleCableDrop, but fall though the ceiling accidentally when the vents above them give way after they get lost in said vents and get into a fight. They fall through and get tangled in their rope... and kill every Russian mob guy in the room as they spin about upside down. This is how Agent Smecker deduces that the brothers are amateurs who most likely got the idea through bad television.

* ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'': The protagonists try a MissionImpossibleCableDrop, but fall though the ceiling accidentally, getting tangled in their rope... and killing everyone in the room as they spin about upside down. This is how Agent Smecker deduces that the brothers are amateurs who most likely got the idea through bad television.

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* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Syndrome tries to escape with Jack-Jack by flying out through the ceiling he just blew a hole into.

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* ''Film/Batman1989'': Batman famously rescues Vicky Vale from the Joker by dramatically entering through the skylight.

* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]. It was the quickest way for the Doctor to jump from a low-flying spacecraft into the room he had to be in as quickly as possible. It really hurt.
** Also near the start of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth The Woman Who Fell to Earth]] when the Doctor crashes through the roof of a train having being thrown out of the TARDIS. Her ongoing regeneration stops her getting hurt.

* At the start of ''[[VideoGame/Splatoon2 Octo Expansion's]]'' finale, Agent 3 bursts in through the glass ceiling to dive-kick Commander Tartar. Too bad she ends up unconscious and mind-controlled, despite buying agent 8 enough time to escape.
* In ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', Shadow needs to talk with Dr. Eggman, tracking down his base and eventually busting into his little lair through the ''metal'' ceiling. The game [[LampshadeHanging immediately lampshades how this appears to be normal business]]:
-->'''Eggman''': ''(without turning in his seat)'' ...[[ThereWasADoor Wouldn't the door have been easier?]] So, what do you want ''now?''

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* ''WebComic/TheLeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes'': The effects of crashing through skylights are played with [[http://superredundant.com/?comic=1075-skylights here]].

* ''Doctor Who: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]''. It was the quickest way for the Doctor to jump from a low-flying spacecraft into the room he had to be in as quickly as possible. It really hurt.

-> "''Nice entrance. Either you've never heard of a door or you just like pulling glass out of your shorts.''"
--> —''The Joker'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''

There are many ways to enter rooms. There's the classic door, sneaking in [[EnterStageWindow through windows]], and then there's the dramatic ones, going through barriers like [[ThereWasADoor walls]], the floor, and for even surprise, there's this trope, for making a BigEntrance through the roof or ceiling.